Thanks for the info and the tips Kyle! Tamas
On Jan 17, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Tamas Nagy wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> I have an application (10.6>) where are have a contextual menu with an >> NSTextfield. What I'm trying is when I displaying the menu with [NSMenu >> popupContextual…] making the NSTextfield focused, but without luck. >> >> I tried setting [mytextfield becomeFirstResponder] and [mytestfield >> selectText:nil] before the popup method called, but it not works - I'm >> not sure this is technology even possible. > > Sadly, views-in-menus is a generally broken technology. It's good for > drawing custom content, but that's about it. > > If you want to do this, you'll probably want to build a custom > NSMenu-lookalike. This is how Spotlight is implemented, for example. > > Alternatively, you may be able to subclass -[NSApplication sendEvent:] > and feed the right data to the text field on your menu. I've heard > rumblings that this is how Xcode implements its typeahead searching in > menus. > > --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
